[olug] Portknocker (from OLUG mtg/presentation)

Jay Swackhamer Jay at RebootTheUser.com
Mon Jun 7 22:50:18 UTC 2004


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/07/us_wardriver_guilty_plea/


> Jay - do you have a link to that? What is you source?
>
>> Giving the 2600 group a bad image.............
>>
>> US wardriver pleads guilty to Wi-Fi hacks
>> In a rare wireless hacking conviction, a Michigan man entered a guilty
>> plea last Friday in federal court in Charlotte, North Carolina for his
>> role in a scheme to steal credit card numbers from the Lowe's chain of
>> home improvement stores by taking advantage of an unsecured Wi-Fi
>> network
>> at a store in suburban Detroit.
>>
>> ......
>> While the hackers took in a film, Lowe's network security team poured
>> over
>> log files and found the bugged program, which had collected only six
>> credit card numbers.
>> ......
>> Botbyl and Timmins, known online as "noweb4u" and "itszer0"
>> respectively,
>> are part of the Michigan 2600 hacker scene - an informal collection of
>> technology aficionados.
>> ......
>>
>> They replaced the tcpcredit program, and only managed to grab six credit
>> card numbers? On a chain that large?
>>
>>
>> .....................
>> PETER
>> You said the thing was supposed to work.
>>
>> MICHAEL
>> Well, technically it did work.
>>
>> PETER
>> No it didn't!
>>
>> SAMIR
>> It did not work, Michael, ok?!
>>
>> MICHAEL
>> Ok! Ok!
>>
>> SAMIR
>> Ok?!
>>
>> MICHAEL
>> Ok! Ok! I must have, I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place
>> or something. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane
>> detail.
>> ......................
> [snipped]
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